The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-04-14

wider room and velocities beyond o)mputa-
ton: the dulest of us into companionship
with the very best spirits in their very best
mood, in the very parlor of the universe, the
four walls FURNISHED and panelled and pict-
ured and glorifled with all the splendors that
the infinite God in all the ages has been
able to invent. Victory!
This view, of course, makes it of but little
Importance whether we are cremated or
sepultured. If the latter Is dust to dust the
former is ashes to ashes. Ii any prefer in
cineration let them have it without carica-
ture. The world may become so crowded
that cremation may be universally adopted
by law as well as by general consent. Many
of the mightiest and best spirits have gone
through this process. Thousands and tens of
thousands of Gods children have been Gre
mated-P. P. Bliss and wife, the evangelistic
singers, cremated by accident at Ashtabula
bridge; John Rodgers, cremate1 by persecu-
ton; Latimer and Ridley, cremated at Ok
ford Pothinus and Blandina, a slave, and
Alexander, physician, and their comrades,
cremated at the order of Marcus Aurelius-
at least 100000 of Christ's disciples cremated,
and there can be no doubt about the resuIrec-
ton of their bodies If the world lasts as
much longer as it has already been built
acreage set apart for the resting places, but
that time has not come. Plenty of room yet,
and the race need not pass that bridge of fire
until it comes to it. The most Of us prefer
the old way. But whether out of natural dis
integration or cremation we shall get that
luminous, buoyant, gladstone, transcendent,
magnificent, inexplicable structure called
the resurrection body; you will have
it, l will have it. 1 say to you to-
day, as Paul said to Agrippa: ''Why should
it be thought thing incredible with you
that God should raise the dead?" The far up
cloud, higher than the hawk flies, higher than
the eagle flies, what is it made of? Drops Of
water from the Hudson, other drops from the
East river, other drops from stagnant pool
out on Newark tiats-up yonder there, EN-
bodied in cloud and the sun kindles it. If
God can make such lustrous cloud out OF
water drops, many of them soiled and impure
and fetched from miles away, can he not
transport the fragments of human body
from the earth, and out of them build a
radiant body? Cannot God, who owns all
the material out of which bones and muscl.
and flesh are made, set them UP again if theg
have fallen2 If a manufacturer of telescope,
drop telescope ON the floor and it breaks,
can he not mend it again so you can see
through it? And if God drops the human
eye into the dust, the eye which he originally
fashioned, can he not restore 1t? Ay, if the
manufacturer of the telescope by change of
the glass and a change Of the focus can make
better glass than that which was originally
constructed, and actually improved it, do you
not think the fashioner of the human eye
may improve its sight and multiply the
natural eye by the thousandfoid additional
forces of the resurrection eye?
"Why should it be thought with you an in
credible thing that God should raise the dead?n
Things all around us suggest it. Out of what
grew all these flowers? Out of the mold and
the earth. Resurrected! Resurrectedl The
radiant butterfly, where did it come from2
The loathsome caterpillar. That albatross
that smites the tempest with its wing where
did it come from? A senseless she'll Near
Bergerac, France, in Celtic tomb under a
block were found flower seed that had been
buried 1000 years. The explorer took the
flower seed and planted it, and it came up, it
bloomed in bluebell and heliotrope. Two thou
sand years ago buried, yet resurrected. A
traveller says he found in a mummy pit in
Egypt garden peas that had been buried there
5000 years ago. He brought them out and
on June 4, 1874, he planted them, and in
thirty days they sprang up. Buried 5000
years yet resurrected. "Why should it be
thought thing incredible with you that God
should raise the dead?'
Where did all this silk come from-the silk
that adorns your person and your homes? In
the hollow of staff a Greek missionary
brought from China to Europe the progenitors
of those worms that now supply the silk
markets of many nations. The pageantry of
hammered host and the luxurious articles of
commercial emporium blazing out from the
/ silk worms. And who shall be surprised if
out of this Insignificant earthly body, this in
significant earthly life, our bodies unfold into
something worthy of the coming eternities?
Put silver into diluted inter and it dissolves.
| Is the silver gone forevera No. Put in some
pieces of copper and the silver reappears. If
one force dissolves another force organizes.
| "Why should it be thought thing incredi-
! BILE with you that God should raise the dead?'
| The insects flew and the worms crawled last
autumn feebler and feebler, and then stopped.
! They have taken no food, they want none
They lay dormant and insensible, but soon the
south wind will blow the resurrection trum-
pet, and the air and the earth will be full of
them. Do you not think that God can do as
much for our bodies as he does for the wasps
and the spiders and the snails? This morning
at 4:30 o'clock there was resurrection. Out
of the night, the day. In few weeks there
| will be a resurrection in all our gardens.
Why not some day a resurrection amid all
the graves2
Ever and anon there are instances of men
and women entranced.
A trance is death followed by resurrection
after few days; total suspension of mental
power and voluntary action. Rev. William
Tennent O great evengelist of the last gener-
ton, of whom DR.. Archibald Alexander, a
man far from being sentimental, wrote in
most eulogistic terms-Rev. William Tennent
seemed to die. His spirit departed. People
came in day after day and said;
"He is dead. he is dead" But the soul that
fed returned. and William Tennent lived to
write out the experiences of what he had seen
while his soul was gone. lt may be found
some time that what is called suspended ami
nation or comatose state is brief DEATH Civ
ing the soul an excursion into the next world
from which it comes back, furlough of q
few hours granted from the conflict of life tc
which it must return. Do not this waking
ND of men from trance, and this waking u
of insects from winter lifelessnesS, and thi
waking up of grains buried 1000 years ago
make it easier for you to believe that youi
body and mine after the vacation of thC
grave shall rouse and rally, though ther;
be 5000 years between our last breatl
and the sounding of the archangelic reyeille
Psychologists tell us that while the most o
our hodies are built with such wonderful
economy that Fye can spare nothing, and th
oss of finger is hindelment, and the in
ury of toe joint makes us lame, Still tina
ye have two or three useless physical ap
oarati, and no anatomist or psychologist ha
eyer been able TO tell what they are good for
They are no doubt the foundation Of th
resurrection body, worth nothing to us II
this state, to be indispensably valuable i'll tn
. next state. The Jewish rabbis had only
mint of this suggestion when they said that il
the human frame there was Il small bon
1, which they said was to be the basis OF th
resurrection body Perhaps that may hav
, been de.usion But this thing Is certain, tn
, Christian scientists of our day have found on
, that there are two or three stiperfiuties Q
! body that ore something gioriously suggestiE
+ OF another state.
called at my friends house one sunne
, day. founi the yard all piled up with tn
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